Apparel-belting.



No. 721,619. PATBNTED FEB. 24,1903.V

G. H. TAYLOR.

APPAREL BELTING.

APPLIOA'I'ION `FILED JUNE 18. 1902.

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t duce a belting or other apparel article broad UNITED STATESY PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. TAYLOR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

APPAREL-BELTING.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofLetters Patent No. 721,619, dated February 24, 1903. Application iiled .Tune 18, 1902. Serial No. 112,173. (Specimens.)

To aZZ whom may concern..-

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. TAYLOR, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and usefullmprovem ents in Strip Fabrics Useful for Forming into Apparel-Belting and Like Articles,of which the following is such a full, clear, and exact description as will enable others vskilled in the .art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to strip fabrics for making apparel-belting and like articles, and has for its particular object to produce in the piece an apparel article of a uniform width which may afterward be cut into shorter lengths and made into belts, collars, dro., having tapered parts.

Manufacturers have long desired a material having distinct folds or plaits which couldbe sufficiently narrowed in places so as to proin certain places and narrow in the others and which could be cut off into short lengths, the ends or .other portions narrowed, and present a sightly appearance. The difficulties heretofore existing in strip fabrics of this character have been obviated by my invention.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown in Figure I a face view of a fabric structure in which my invention is embodied. Fig. III shows a rear View of the structure; Fig. III, a section thereof in substantially normal shape; Fig. IV, a section with the plaits or folds compacted as they would be at the end or other portion of a belt or like article, and Fig. V, shows a belt end having a tapered form such as may be made up from the fabric embodying my invention.

I will now proceed to describe in detail one form of goods embodying my invention.

In the drawings, @indicates the lining. This lining preferably consists of slightlystiened fabric-such, for instance, as cotton or lawn. To the edge of this lining a folded strip b, of satinor other suitable material, is sewed by lines of stitching c. The upper edge ev of the strip of satin or other materialf is sewed upon the structure so formed by aV line of stitches g and the edge turned over and its lower edge h sewed to the lining by a -it is preferably made in the form shown.

110W of stitches t. The 1in-ing is foidea'nuted,

plait k intervening between the lines of stitching c g and t' h, the part of thelining between the said groups of stitches being narrower than the width ofthe strip f. The upper edge of a strip m,which is similar to the stripf, is stitched to the lower edge o f f, the stitches passing through the lining, and thelower edge of the strip m is sewed to the lower edgeof the lining a, the plait l intervening between the rows of stitching z' and -0 and the width ofthe lining between t' and 0 being narrower than the strip m. The upper edgep of a strip q is stitched to the lower edges of the lining and the strip m by a row of stitching r, and thefree edge s of the strip q is turned under and secured to the rear face of the lining by stitches at its lower edge. The structure 'when made in this manner may be made in the piece of uniform width throughout and may be cut up into belting, collars, and the like, the ends of the belt lengths being capable of beingnarrowed or compacted, as shown in Fig.'IV, by-reason of the fact that thevlining is plaited or tinted. I have thus produced an article which may be made in the piece of any desired length and sold in the piece to manufacturers who make up their own belting or other apparel goods.

In Fig. V, I have shown how the belt may be tapered, the relative characters of the plaits of the lining au-d of the body composed by the strips b, f, m, and p permitting such tapering. For the purposes of brevity and clearn ess the body may be regarded as a plaited body, although it will be understood that It will also be observed that the portion of the lining between the stitching is'shown as narrower than the satin face between such stitching.

For the gard the terms bends,

purposes of this specification I replaits, and

vfolds as alternative, and therefore have used but one of these terms in Athe claims, but desire to be understood as claiming alternative construction so far as the state of the prior art will admit.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

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l. An apparel article comprising a body of strip form having folds running longitudinally thereof and a laterally-collapsible lining having longitudinal bends therein, the body being secured to the lining along lines running longitudinally thereof and the longitudinal bends of the lining intervening between the longitudinal lines, along Which attachment of the body and lining is eected, the said bends of the lining being of less Width than the folds of the body.

2. An apparel article comprising a body of strip form having folds running longitudinally thereof and a laterally-collapsible lining having longitudinal bends therein, the body being secured to the lining along lines running longitudinally thereof and the longitudinal bends of the lining intervening between the longitudinal lines, along which attachment of the body and lining is effected.

3. An apparel article in strip form of substantially uniform width adapted to be cut up into belt-bodies or the like, the said body portion comprising a series of strips of fabric, a lining secured to the said series of strips of fabric by means extending longitudinally of the apparel article, and bends permanently formed in the lining between the longitudinal lines Where attachment of the lining to the body portion is effected.

4f. An apparel article in strip form and of substantially uniform width, comprising in its structure a body having folds therein and a lining secured to the said body portion by rows of stitches extending longitudinally of the apparel article, the said lining having bends intervening between the lines of stitches whereby an end or other portion of the apparel-body may be gathered by collapsing the folds of the lining and body portion.

GEORGE H. TAYLOR.

Vitnesses:

F. EMIL, M. F. WEISS. 

